JAMIE MAGEE BOOKS · NEW RELEASE: THE RAWLINGS SERIES, BOOK ONE

The Rawlings boys leave at eighteen. It’s tradition. The Marines first. Declan Rawlings has been counting down to his boot camp date since he signed at seventeen. Then, six days before he leaves, a hurricane traps him alone with the one girl he swore he’d never touch. Justice Rose. The preacher’s granddaughter. The girl whose bruises nobody in town asks about. The girl his brother claimed first. One storm. One night. Everything Declan thought he knew about Justice twists into something else. Claims are made. Vengeance is delivered…to the wrong brother. With his contract signed, Declan has to leave her behind, but he refuses to trap her in a promise to him. Right girl. Wrong time. He asks for one thing. Write. Hours after he’s gone, Justice’s world caves in. Her abusive, drunken father pushes her into survival mode, and every lie she’s forced to keep pulls the noose of manipulation tighter. Declan’s letters flood in. She writes back, but it’s too late. One phone call from a spiteful sheriff, packed with lies and backwoods authority, silences Declan before he can answer. It’s a battle they’re strong enough to wait out. Soon enough, she’ll be eighteen. But nothing prepares either of them for what’s discovered when Declan comes home from boot camp. The same night Justice’s hell broke loose, his brother Nolan vanished. No wreck. No trail. No body. The buried secrets behind Nolan’s disappearance reach deeper into Bradyville than either of them imagined, which only makes the roller coaster of separation, doubt, and grief all the more soul-wrenching. The hurricane lasted one night. Can the flame it sparked burn through the relentless hell it unleashed? Bradyville keeps its secrets. So does the river.